Re: monitor-mode is not working

Simon Heß wrote:

>hi,
>my ipw2200 worked nice for 12months... in _all_ modes.
>but since i reinstalled my complete system the monitor mode is refusing
>to work.
>
>the managed mode works nicely but when i place the card via "iwconfig
>eth1 mode monitor" into the monitor mode, "ifconfing eth1" shows a
>strange hw-address and protocol:
>
>"Protokoll:UNSPEC  Hardware Adresse
>00-0E-35-3D-FA-DF-00-00-00-00-00-00-00" (the "true" hw-adress is:
>"00:0E:35:3D:FA:DF"
>  
>
Hw address does change, i've always seen that behaviour and i consider 
it normal.
Your ifconfig binary is too old and doesn't support your link mode (raw, 
rtap, or whatever).
Apart from those nags, why do you say it doesn't work?

>the dmesg-output produced by "modprobe ipw2200" shows a strange
>PCI-interrupt (see below). does that mean that the card is broken!?
>(remember: in managed-mode it's still working)
>
>###########dmesg-output#############
>ipw2200: Intel(R) PRO/Wireless 2200/2915 Network Driver, 1.1.2dmprq
>ipw2200: Copyright(c) 2003-2006 Intel Corporation
>ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:02:06.0[A] -> Link [LNKG] -> GSI 10 (level,
>low) -> IRQ 10
>  
>
I don't know much about pci-irq, but i'd say it looks normal too.


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